Whats your most WTF moment you ever had?

[PhroX]

Not exactly the same sort of WTF, but I still think it counts as such a moment.

 

 Take note of the ammo selection, the range and the ships in question.

 

 

 

Heh, I had a game where my Clemson manage to get three HE citadels on a Myogi. Two of which were in the same salvo of...two shots.

[havaduck]

Nope, just WG @ work. In fact you couldn't have done this with AP (at that distance and angle).

 

Gremlin got powerfull 130 mm guns, which when firing HE can pen 21,6 mm of armor. Now HE can't bounce and armor doesnt get enhanced thicknes because of angling. Finally Myogi got 19-25 mm deck armor and 19-203 mm for the citadel (and I bet the 19 mm here is the armored deck above the citadell)

 

So .... not surprised at all.

[Unintentional_submarine]

Haha, that's pretty epic.

 

The Myogi and the Wyoming appears to have a really wonky citadel hitbox. I mean in my case, my HE shell hit somewhere with around 21mm armour or less, covering the citadel. That can't be right. Besides HE shells don't really travel through the ship. So the citadel was right up against said armour.

 

havaduck, on 07 August 2015 - 12:50 PM, said:

Nope, just WG @ work. In fact you couldn't have done this with AP (at that distance and angle).

 

Gremlin got powerfull 130 mm guns, which when firing HE can pen 21,6 mm of armor. Now HE can't bounce and armor doesnt get enhanced thicknes because of angling. Finally Myogi got 19-25 mm deck armor and 19-203 mm for the citadel (and I bet the 19 mm here is the armored deck above the citadell)

 

So .... not surprised at all.

 

If you go to the gamemodels3d site, you will see that the Myogi has 19mm underwater protection, and the forward and rear decks that doesn't cover the citadel. Obviously it was a hit to that underwater belt, which by itself it pretty odd. The armoured deck covering the citadel from above is 25mm and is rather deep in the ship, no chance my HE could reach it.
 

[St4n]

Start of the game, north spawn facing south.

Question which side came up and than some: left, no right, sorry left...

So I asked from what perspective, minimap or our facing. And why they don't use east/west...

 

And than someone started to slander me for not knowing what left and right is.

A harsh explanation that there is no common perspective and according to our facing "left" is completly opposite to "left" according to minimap was my reaction.

He tried to tell me that everyone knows what "left" is.

After 2 or 3 comments from me he finally got what I was talking about and suddenly got very defensive. (Yeah, hard to admit that you are wrong after spouting [edited] all over the chat.)

 

And than his comment... : "It's a game."

As if that would change how left/right work... I told him that and he started to insult me for beeing a DD and some other nonsens. I just took remarks onto his intelligence and laughed about him. In the end he just threw standard insults arround.

 

As I was dead I checked his stats and asked in chat how someone can have 43% winrate.

The answer from someone feeling smart was: "you need to know math, it means 57% lossrate"

And I had the second:

Offcourse, our mentally challanged friend laughed not even comprehending that it wasn't what I asked and even than beeing proud of 57% lossrate... yeah. The game ended and I lost some IQ-points just talking to people like that.

[havaduck]

HE shells can't travel under water, they detonate as soon as the hit something, as stated by wg - only AP can. Even if they could, lets give them the 1/6 gun diameter because they also said thats what HE alway pens (albeit on armor) ..... thats 21,6 mm water, and then there is still 19 mm of hull armor ....... at least thats what the site says.

 

btw: great site. Ive been searching for something like this..... until now I could make only do with  fragmented historical and x-y mm armor ratings. hava a +1 from me.

 

But .... now that ive seen this armor scheme I cant  figure it out. The internal armored deck should get and withstand any blast even if a he penned the 19 mm infront and aft of the casemate guns.

[Unintentional_submarine]

HE shells can't travel under water, they detonate as soon as the hit something, as stated by wg - only AP can. Even if they could, lets give them the 1/6 gun diameter because they also said thats what HE alway pens (albeit on armor) ..... thats 21,6 mm water, and then there is still 19 mm of hull armor ....... at least thats what the site says.

 

btw: great site. Ive been searching for something like this..... until now I could make only do with  fragmented historical and x-y mm armor ratings. hava a +1 from me.

 

But .... now that ive seen this armor scheme I cant  figure it out. The internal armored deck should get and withstand any blast even if a he penned the 19 mm infront and aft of the casemate guns.

 

The site is great, but they have made T7-10 a pay-thing. Not entirely sure they can do that with WG property, but I guess we will find out.

 

What I'm thinking happened is that the waves created a small depression so the water didn't cover a very small bit of underwater belt. The armoured deck however, doesn't cover the underwater belt. On the armour model you can click the various thicknesses on the panel and see where they apply. The 25mm deck doesn't protect the sides enough. Very interesting info you can find there.

[dblkion]

Rammed a DD with ~2K hp left with my Kongo (IJN BB). Sank him but lost 40K HP. Balance OP !

[G01ngToxicCommand0]

My first WTF was when I pressed start after 30th game or so in CBT and thought: WTF is this game; Dumb downed bathtub warship wars?, my second WTF moment was this: No british techree until late 2016 at the earliest because nationalistic russians need a papertech USSR navy in order to be able to play so we skip being able to have the centennial of the Battle of Jutland remembered with a historic battle between the Grand Fleet and the Hochseeflotte.

Third WTF moment is every time pressed play since OBT began, horrendous MM and worse new players..

 

 

[Talladega_Night]

 

I had a WTF game in my Hosho last night. Everything started normally until the enemy started showing up.

 

I watched as a Enmy St Louis rammed a Myogi on his team causing both of them to ground themselves into an island, I promptly send both by torp squads to them and promptly kill the St Louis and heavily damage the Myogi. So that's fine. Around 8 min later s sneaky sneak Furotaka flanks my Hosho but rather then waiting to launch his torps for my broad side he launches them while I am pointed his direction cleanly avoiding everything he fired, This is where a big WTF moment happens, Just as he fired his torps, the enemy langly attacks me from the same vector with his torp squadrons right in the path of the Furotaka. They all hit him sinking him instantly. and I am able to carry on doing more attacks and sinking more things.

 

Was awesome to watch everything unolfd. 

 

[TheCinC]

I have so many:

 

-Every time matchmaking gives me a game where only one side has a CV

-Every time my ship is sunk and all or most of the torpedoes I launched just in time end up hitting that battleship as its captain only steers in a straight line

-Every time I play a really great game, doing a lot of damage, sinking two or more ships and earning awards, but we still lose

-Every time I run into one of those stupid islands or see a teammate or enemy do the same

-Every time I round and island, only to instantly get hit by torpedoes launched half an hour ago

-Every time I launch waves of torpedoes, but my opponent manages to dodge each and every one of them, while I have trouble avoiding them all the time as my ships turn like bricks

-Every time a teammate launches torpedoes from behind his teammates and hits one of us, or almost and then, despite me warning them, does so again

-Every time I find myself in the lead, no matter if I am playing a battleship, CA or DD, and end up eating the shells and torps of half the enemy fleet

[Humbug_1]

Single Torp hit took 90% health off South Carolina.... WTF?!?!?!?!

 

[TheCinC]

Okay, I just had yet another memorable game..

 

St Louis, Big Race, Tier III game.

 

Ended up one the edge of the map with a few ships in front of me.

Started pouring fire onto every enemy ship I could see, and there were plenty.

Somehow, they completely and utterly ignored me and instead focused on the ships in front of me, as my St Louis once again gave a nice demonstration of the awesome firepower it can wield.

It has so many guns and reloads so quickly, you can basically keep up a continuous barrage, so you're constantly busy aiming and firing, don't have much time for anything else.

As a result, I wasn't paying attention much to anything except shooting up enemy ships, so ended up drifting along the edge of the map without noticing, almost ran into an island, then accidentally hit a friendly as he wasn't minding where he was going either and had come right alongside of me and even rammed me.

I was doing a lot of damage, but even a Kawachi that was right in front of me didn't pay me any attention until I had pumped almost 50 shells into him.

By the time he tried to target me, it was too late.

I got confederate, for the first time in Open Beta, but the game wasn't over yet.

I would need to watch the replay to confirm, but I think they briefly held an advantage in ships.

Briefly.

I tried to turn towards the base, which was being capped, but enemy ships kept approaching me one by one,

That suited me fine, as I sank them one by one.

With help from my allies, I ended up sinking 6 ships, damaging three others, for a total of over 60 K in damage.

I scored 134 hits, 8 incapacitations, sank 6 ships, set three fires and scored 2 citadel hits, both on the same ship and successfully defended the base.

We won by sinking them all.

 

I took about 1.6 k damage from a total of 3 hits.

Three. Hits.

I guess they really misunderestimated me this game.

 

[Userext]

Single Torp hit took 90% health off South Carolina.... WTF?!?!?!?!

 

magazine explosion can cause it. If the south carolina didnt die, you must be lying or your computer couldnt sync torpedoes in the water.

[Testokan]

1st game in the Murmansk:

2-3 Minutes in the game, I see some Torp bombers. So I go; "Yeah, Murmansk, stronk AA!". I try to attack the bombers before they reach the BB's. 

The bombers decide to torp me instead. As I had an island next to me, I had to turn away from them. 

Now I was driving away with 5-6 torps chasing me. I decided to let one hit and let the others pass. All worked fine, except the torp hit my rudder and my ship turned into the remaining torps. Boom. Sunk. 

Didn't fire one single shot, but took 2 planes with me. 

 

 

[Admiral_noodle]

Mine is still on new dawn - my Omaha and team mates catch 3 phoenixes around islands. One runs aground, I sink it. Then number two grounds in the same place, I sink it. Then the third does the same... I can't sink it because I'm laughing too hard.

 

Headless phoenixes

 

Ended the game sinking 5 ships just about controlling my lols...

[Damanta]

A fairly old one (also posted in greatest moments); blowing myself up with a torpedo... in an Omaha.

[SailingDutchy]

my WTF moment just happens a minute away i hit a nicholas DD with 3 torps of my Aoba and it still whas alive how can it happens 3 TORPS AND STILL ALIVE 

[OnboardG1]

Fired a spread of torpedoes at a battleship, missed and sunk an unspotted carrier that was steaming out from behind an island.